There's the scene in Reservoir Dogs where Mr. Blonde beats up the guy in the chair. And there's Silence of the Lambs, when Hannibal escapes toward the end and that beautiful music is playing while he goes ape. And Sofia Coppola has a knack, though unintentional, for picking songs totally incongruous to the mood of a particular scene. (We get it, doll. You have an eclectic taste in music. Save it for your myspace profile.)

But Dr. Strangelove is a bit different -- the music is third-party background, whereas with A Clockwork Orange, it is the sociopathic perpetrator making the music. Along the latter lines, there is also For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone), where the bad guy plays this music-box kind of tune before shooting someone down.

The original 'The Bad Seed' (1956) did the combination pretty well. The violence was shrouded by the mores of the time, but obvious. The tune, 'Au Claire de la Lune', a French folk song and early-student piano piece went from light to terrifying.

Boy, the Jon Huntsman ad is unbelievably pathetic -- from the very first second. I don't think the message "Romney disdains the Mainstream Media" is going to be very resonant in the Republican primaries.

"Can you think of some examples of incongruously lighthearted music accompanying a brutal attack?"

I don't suppose The Ride of the Valkyries counts.

There is the scene in the Godfather when Michael has his enemies eliminated during his nephew's baptism. All the murders take place to organ music and the liturgical voiceover.

I respect a politician more who refuses to pander to the press and play the Sunday talk show game than one who does.

The notion that a politician and/or candidate has to hold press conferences and/or go on news shows is asinine. The complaints by the press have far more to do with selling copy than anything of substance.

(Now, once you do have a press conference and/or go on a talk show, you can't be a weasel about it. Obama hasn't learned that.)

How about Peter Paul and Mary's Polly Von? Sad and dirge like he pronounces his arrow killed his true love, then comes the excuse, in an upbeat refrain: "She'd her apron wrapped about her and I took her for a swan..."

I would rate the ad as ineffective: Romney looks great jogging, unlike Carter or Clinton--who looked as if they would keel-over at any moment. Romney also shows good humor when being blind-sided with gotcha questions. Finally, Republicans mostly don't like the press and will look favorably on a politician who spurns them.

If this is an attempt to win the R Primary for Romney and help him in the general with the vast majority of Americans who think Michael Moore, or whoever that clone of him was at the end and the rest of the press are agenda driven activists, then it worked great.

If the Fox News logo was supposed to be some kind of hint to the right that Romney is even dissing them, well, they shouldn't have used Chris Wallace. Here is another hint for free, don't use Shemp Smith, Geraldo, or the fat guy in suspenders either.

The Victors features a firing squad with Sinatra crooning I'll be home for Christmas. Early Peter Jackson has a 19-year old Kate Winslet and friend preparing to bludgeon the friend's mother while The Humming Chorus plays in Heavenly Creatures.

Bender already referenced "A Clockwork Orange," and in that case the musical choice ("Singing in the Rain") does communicate that he's a sociopath because it is so inappropriate for the context. I'd also agree with Erich's point about "Danny Boy" in "Miller's Crossing."

With "M" on the other hand, the murderer whistles the theme from "Peter and the Wolf" which serves as a warning to the audience that he's up to no good. After all, it was Lang's first "talkie" and he was careful to use sound to maximum effect whenever possible.

Coketown is referring to this scene in "The Silence of the Lambs" which has Lecter listening to the Aria from J.S. Bach's "Goldberg" Variations. I think the scene would have been better if Demme had just let the Aria play throughout the scene, without the addition of the "movie music" during the attack.

Also using one of the "Goldberg" Variations, there's "Slaughterhouse Five. Glenn Gould was the musical consultant for the film, and he used his own rendition of the 25th variation over the linked scene.

Oh, come on, Jon Huntsman... really? REALLY? You gonna attack the anointed head honcho of the Republican party, and soon of the nation, from the safety of your YouTube account and the bunker of your 2% poll ratings? PATHETIC!

The fact is that Mitt does communicate... all the fucking time!... but only to the people who are actually going to decide this election. He talks to K Street. He talks to Wall Street. He is the most important man in D.C. inner circles. And-- by golly gosh!-- he talks to the good ole' fashioned interest groups.

But the public? Why the hell should Mitt talk to the public? Or to Sunday talk shows? Or anywhere, for that matter, where the presence of commoners might taint the purity of his leadership? Fuck you, Jon Huntsman... while you wallow in the muck with the proles, Romney acts with detached indifferent I-am-above-you DIGNITY!

And as Cain is exposed to be a sex-crazed beagle of black man, and Perry having been exposed to be nothing more than junior-college material with a Texas twang, there ain't much competition left.

The mighty aristocrat stands alone. And soon he will stand victorious.

1. Romney looks great jogging. Vigorous. Dare we say...even charismatic??2. He DISTAINS the demand of MSM millionaires that he forthwith appear as they require on their shows? Ooooooo! That will rile up Republicans.3. Strong, telling a heckler to "listen to my words". 4. No one is noticing the voiceover, they are seeing images of Romney that make him look Presidential, a man of action, not the inaction theme Huntsman's ad is supposed to communicate.

John Huntsman, a liberal Republican who by his presence, shifts Romney to the "reasonable" center of the Party automatically in comparison to himself and the movement conservatives running. Who takes the sting of Romney the only Richman against the Hero Conservative reactionary Everyman/woman away due to the vast Huntsman family wealth.

If I was Romney, I'd be sending his future White House foreign emissary John Huntsman some fellow Mormon magic underwear as a Christmas present this year!

I watched "A Clockwork Orange" in my Movie appreciation class back in college. It was a real eye opener for a hick from Kentucky.

So many windows of psychology, and psychological manipulation were opened in that screening. And not just what Kubrik was doing with the film, but in the film itself, with its questions of right and wrong, and self-determination.

"Singing in the rain"-while raping a woman in front of her husband. Man that was genius.

Much as a fine wine has subtle undertones, and hints of seasons past, so this film. But wasted on those without the pallet to appreciate its true mastery.

I love my wife dearly, and all our family, but I wouldn't make them watch it for they lack the palate to "taste" it. As an example, my wife is supposed to drink a glass of wine a day, so I plied her zinfandels, and gewurztraminers. She finally got tired of my selections and told me she liked "Boone's Farm".(my wife has an IQ of 180 but her education is at best "earthy")

Anyway, I'd rather the angry sock monkey win another term than "der mittens". Can't stand RINO's. If I wanted big gummit, I'd vote for the D.

RINO's are the poorly committed cheer squad. Much like OWS. "Whatta' we want?" "Something""Whenna' we want it?" "Sometime"

RINO's are Schrodingers Cat writ large on the political landscape. Quit fooling yourself, the f^&*ing cat is dead. "It is no more!" to quote the dead parrot sketch.

You know, I used to make out to Wonderful, Wonderful at parties when I was a teenager and always loved the song because it was so wonderfully nostalgic. And then I saw Home. Now all it does is conger up the Peacock family. (It also signals the point point at which I fast forward through the mayhem at Sheriff Taylor's house. There are some movie/tv scenes I just won't watch and that's one of 'em. Do you remember the first time you saw that episode? Was your jaw hanging open at the end like mine?)

I'd been happily whistling along with Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks on the radio for weeks until my teenage daughter said "You know, Dad, that is about a school shooter?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ